User talk:Carwil/Archive 2005-2008

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A welcome from me also — that was one nice and meaty expansion over at MOSOP, I got you a sunflower for that :P. I also noted your creation of Ogoni people. Judging from your contributions so far, you might be interested in WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias and probably also the Africa-related regional notice board. Keep up the good work! Kind regards, — mark ✎ 3 July 2005 00:06 (UTC)

Amazon Civilization

Hello Carwil!

In the article History of South America

Would minding telling me where you heard of:

people lived on a complex combination of swidden agriculture, alteration of the forest ecosystem, and hunting and gathering. Concentrated in large settlements on the shores of the Amazon

For what I know, the pre-columbian amazon was inhabited by a wealth of communities, relatively isolated from each other, and they didn't really applied themselves to "large settlements" or "alteration of the ecosystem", leading mostly hunter/gatherer lifestyles.

I would be very interested in reading up the source of that. Thanks! Claus Aranha 08:27, 16 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I have googled up "pre-colombian amazon", and found some pretty interesting information. Thanks for the motivation. Since you're rewording your edit, I'll put what I've found on the talk page of the article, and add it later. It might be interesting to write that the notion of a densely populated amazon was brought about by recent archeological findings. Claus Aranha 09:36, 16 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Jenin

I know you are new, but if you vandalize any more pages by disregarding NPOV policies, your stay here will be a short one.

Regards,

Guy Montag 07:16, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for contributing to Girl!

		An Award
		For your contributions to the CotW focusing on Girl in September, 2005, I, Mamawrites, award you, Carwil, this THANK YOU.

Page deletion

I page which is part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti-war (of which you are listed as a member) is up for deletion. It is The Left and Opposition to War, you can see its entry at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Left and Opposition to War. It would be helpfull if you could add your opinion.--JK the unwise 12:58, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Anti-war project, push to get a featured article b4 Xmass

February 15, 2003 anti-war protest, an article which is part of the WikiProject Anti-war of which you are listed as a member, has been recently rated A-class by the Version 1.0 Editorial team (see here) This means that it is considered to be of good quality. The Anti-war project has yet to achieve a featured article but with a little pushing I feel we could get this article up to FA standards. To this end I have put the article up for peer review, if you could help make this a brilliant article that would be much appreciated. Please give your comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/February 15, 2003 anti-war protest/archive2 or on the article's talk page. Fingers crossed for a FA before Xmass.--JK the unwise 13:04, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject anti-war, Article improvement drive

February 15, 2003 anti-war protest an article from the WikiProject Anti-war, which you are listed as a member of, has been nominated for the Article Improvement Drive (by me ).

It is an article about a day of much importance both to the history of the anti-war movement and to general discussion of the Iraq war. With a little work from experienced editors it could gain FA status. If you would like to see it improved please vote for it at Make "February 15, 2003 anti-war protest" the subject of an Article Improvement Drive--JK the unwise 13:20, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Roma people won!

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Roma people was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help…

AID

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Great Leap Forward and Decline of the Roman Empire were selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help…

Image:ExtRenditionMap.gif

Myself and another editor have a few qualms with your map, which hopefully you can help us sort out. The main troubles are whether or not to include Thailand and what source you have for the inclusion of Myanmar, which we've been unable to find. Please take a look at Image talk:ExtRenditionMap.gif for the discussion. Thanks! Blackcap (talk) 18:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Anti-war topics up for deletion

Template:Anti-war topics is up for deletion. Please weigh in on the discussion. Thanks! SchuminWeb (Talk) 09:30, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Energy portal

Hi! As a contributor to WikiProject Climate change, I thought you might like to be aware of the opportunity to contribute to the new energy portal, now that there is one... No need to reply. Gralo 17:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thoughts?

Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_October_11#Template:Palestine. You'll notice it is the same block of voters who all come in and voted oppose to the renaming here: Talk:Allegations_of_Israeli_apartheid#Requested_move.2C_Retitle_Article_ASAP. It's coordinated block voting and I do not know how to respond to it appropriately. Maybe I should create a mailing list of people who I think will vote with me and call them up when I want to get rid of something I don't like. --Ben 04:32, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:DRV

I have restored the article you requested. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 16:07, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join WikiProject Environment

Hi there, I notice your background and interests. I am seeking to expand the membership of Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment to create a more informed vibrant environmental community on wikipedia. Would you be interested in joining? If so please put your name down on the project page Alex 15:26, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Burma/Myanmar

Hi! Please join us! Chris 18:41, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jayjg's literary test

RE: Allegations of Israeli apartheid: [1]. --70.48.243.22 19:35, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About Kachin or Jingpo

please chech Talk:Jingpo--Ksyrie 22:39, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

White people's page

I agree with your comments one hundred per cent. Veritas et Severitas 23:56, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Torture and USA

I've had a brief go at the US section on Uses of torture in recent times. It needs compressing heavily to a summary of the main torture article.

A second issue is that there are heavily referenced and summarized sections in Human rights and the United States which reference torture but are not included in either of these articles. See sections "Torture, abduction and abuse" and "Prison". These need copy/pasting into the main "torture" article, complete with references, and then a better summary done in the more general article.

Can IO leave this to you? Its needed. Thanks. FT2 ^{(Talk | email)} 19:50, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Auca

Thanks for your comments on Talk:Operation Auca; I've responded and suggested alternate wording. --Spangineer^ws (háblame) 15:48, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

white people article

Lukas is sistematically reverting me, you and the Behnam. I do not kow what to do with this guy. Veritas. 72.144.76.107 16:53, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Meditation

They may also meditate the dominant, substantial ancestry issue, if you want to add it under additional issues...Lukas19 19:26, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Have you withdrawn your request for meditation? Lukas19 19:58, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Mediation

A Request for Mediation to which you are a party has been accepted. You can find more information on the mediation subpage, Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/White people.

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Energy portal & future selected articles

Hi! Over the past couple of months I've been spending much more time than I should developing the Energy portal, and intend asking for a portal peer review within the next day or so.

The portal provides a showcase for energy-related articles on Wikipedia. One of the most prominent ways is via a the selected article that is currently changed every 6 weeks or so. It would be good to increase this turnover, and with three Wikiprojects dedicated to energy-related topics and a good number of articles already written, I'd like to suggest that members of each Wikiproject might like to use the 'selected article' to feature some of their best work.

With this in mind, I'd like to suggest that your Wikiproject bypasses the normal selected article nomination page and decides collectively which articles are worth featuring - or these may be self-evident from previous discussions (or from here) - and add short 'introduction' to the selected article at the appropriate place on page Portal:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, which includes further information. Your personal involvement would be welcome!

Please make any comments on your Wikiproject talk page, my talk page, or on Portal talk:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, as appropriate. Gralo 15:54, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Niger Delta

Hello Carwil,

I'm partly translating the Niger Delta for the Dutch language Wikipedia. I found out that you wrote the piece about the oilwells, natural gas, etc in the article (e.g. here). Can you tell me from which source you have the figures? So I can add them to the new article on nl:. Thanks in advance and cheers, --Jeroenvrp 14:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Carwil,

Do you already have an answer on my question?

Cheers, --Jeroenvrp 18:13, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Racism by country

Thanks for responding to the RFC. WilyD 16:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pre-1500 Genocides

Please see Talk:Genocides in history#Pre-1500 Genocides? Some more non-Eurocentric ones? -- Philip Baird Shearer 17:18, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

With reference to this edit Revision as of 16:41, 9 May 2007 please see my comments on the talk page (Talk:Genocides in history#Pre-1500 Genocides? Some more non-Eurocentric ones?). --Philip Baird Shearer 18:56, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the talk page. I have removed the section again. I would rather not have done it and if I had the sources I would have addressed the issues I raised on the talk page rather than deleting the section. But I do not, and you had not responded to the requests for a re-wording. --Philip Baird Shearer 16:46, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Racism by country

Hello, a request for mediation has been filed given the deadlock at racism by country. You previously offered comment on it, but were not involved in any edit warring. As such, I'm inviting you to add yourself to the RFM if you feel that you're part of the dispute. You can do so here. If you feel you're not involved in the dispute, please disregard this message and thanks for your earlier opinion. WilyD 21:45, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please help

I'd appreciate it if you would check out the article on White people and comment on this discussion. Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 06:01, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for that POV marker on the Terrorist Attacks site today. Every incident should be properly sourced to the historical literature on the subject, someone I have endeavoured to do with the Bedawi/Bedouin assault of 1954. RegardsNishidani 15:13, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Availability for Wikipedia:WikiProject_Anthropology/Collaboration_of_the_month

The probable sorry state of 'core anthropology' articles on Wikipedia has been recently identified here

As a self-nominated Wikipedia:WikiProject_Anthropology member, I thought I'd check on your interest and willingness to see anthropology better represented on Wikipedia? Bruceanthro (talk) 14:48, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violation in OpCondorParticipantsMap

Dear Carwill, I was looking al the OpCondorParticipantsMap. It's a map originally made by me, but now my name is deleted from the "author" field, and it only mentioned that you are the only author, and a note saying "modified by Carwil James for Operation Condor page". I'm not sure what happened there, but it's a copyright violation, because GNUF doesn't allowed to delete authors names. ¿Do you know something about this? If not I think we need to delete the img because of copyvio. Kind regards, --Roblespepe (talk) 15:36, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, Carwill. yes, you're right, I'm wrong. Sorry. Kind regards, --Roblespepe (talk) 03:09, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Split person of color from colored

You suggested spltting the person of color section from the colored article back in September. I just went ahead and did it without realizing that you were trying to start a conversation there. Anyway, if you're interested in the conversation, no one else has said anything else.--Irn (talk) 03:00, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Looming Tower

Hello. I am trying to improve the 9/11 article and I need some help. Regarding this edit you made to Operation Grapes of Wrath, I was wondering if you knew the page number or knew someone on Wikipedia who does know. Or of you got this from a book review, if you could point me in the right direction. Thanks. -- VegitaU (talk) 01:12, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]